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When Hollywood laid its golden fingers upon Mr. Steinbeck, the great realist and his following sadly shook their heads. You couldn't expect to reproduce Toilers of the Land in the gloss of Klieg lights. Agricultural proletarians on a budget of a few hundred dollars a day simply wouldn't look human. There were limits even to what Hollywood could...
...After 15 years it seems (like rooms and houses not seen since childhood) much smaller than memory suggested. It still has fresh and human qualities and a wise moral, but clearly it was the brilliant acting of Pauline Lord, Richard Bennett and Glenn Anders that gave it its original gloss...
...more than $85,000,000, to be shared by the many studio executives in Hollywood's nepotistic structure, and those of the 28,000 cinemartisans who have managed to survive recent retrenchment. The remainder will largely go for the papier-mache, froufrou, sundries that give Hollywood its supercolossal gloss...
...Despite the approving babble of occupants of University chairs in poetics on its announcement, the poetry award went to a woman, a sort of minor Edna Millay, whose poems are completely negligible. They are readable and sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya Zaturenska and the glibness of Robert Hillyer have evidently rung louder in the cars of the Pulitzer Committee in recent years than the works...
...MacDonald, however, brought U. S. osteopaths something far more useful to them than gloss. The greatest weakness in their theory that "one of the primary causes of disease [is] a mechanical maladjustment ['osteopathic lesion'] of some sort which . . . may be found in a joint, muscle, ligament or other tissue," has been that no osteopath was ever able to produce a lesion in any creature by a scientifically impeccable experiment. Osteopath Louisa Burns of South Pasadena, Calif, claimed to do so, but could not convince sceptics. Dr. MacDonald appeared at Chicago last week with X-ray and documentary proofs...